Pros and Cons of Marijuana

The uses of marijuana amongst teenagers has increased over the years making it the most accessible drug in America as well as one the most beneficial due to its medical uses. According to the article of Marijuana Use Among Youths Is a Serious Problem, written by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA) (2004), stated that the uses of marijuana has impacted the youth in many ways due to the unknown factors of marijuana such as admittance to treatment facilities, and being admitted into emergency rooms. The CASA took the con side of the argument dealing with the issues of marijuana use with teenagers. The second article Marijuana Should Be

Although it is a highly common defense that marijuana is not addictive, it in fact is. Many regular smokers find themselves ridden with very similar withdrawal symptoms of a tobacco addict (Marijuana Addiction Symptoms and Effects). Around 9% of people who use find themselves dependent on marijuana (Is Marijuana Addictive?). That may not seem like much, but that is almost 1 in every 10 people hooked on a drug that is supposedly “non-addictive.” Legalizing a drug that causes disorientation, paranoia, depression, anxiety, dizziness, and a slowed reaction time is not safe, not to mention the fact that it is a gateway drug, often leading users to use even more damaging and dangerous drugs (Is Marijuana Addictive?). With the legalization of a drug like marijuana comes increased use and abuse of the drug. Marijuana is unsafe medically for the individual using and for the people around them when the user is under the influence, it will cost the government money and time and it will cost employers tons. Legalizing marijuana would be a huge mistake by our country.

Before 1937, marijuana was freely bought, sold, grown, and smoked in the United States. Since that time, all of these activities have been illegal, but many groups and individuals have fought to decriminalize marijuana. The congressional decision to classify marijuana as a Schedule I drug in 1970 has made the legalization campaign more difficult, since it officially established marijuana as a dangerous, addictive drug with no medicinal benefits.

The legalization of marijuana is, and has been a heavily disputed issue for decades. On one hand, marijuana could lead to a medical breakthrough, or at least provide relief to cancer and AIDS patients. On the other hand, legalizing a drug could expose it to too broad an audience. As a drug, marijuana has never proven to be anywhere near as harmful as cigarettes or alcohol. Each year in the United States, 400,000 people die from tobacco, 50,000 from alcohol, and from marijuana, zero. Regardless of what side one may take to this argument, there are some causes to this marijuana debate that everyone should know. Marijuana was not always illegal, and the reasons behind the history of narcotic regulation are interesting when viewed from

The use of marijuana is quite a controversial topic. Some people believe the use can be helpful, to society, while others greatly disagree. Three of the popular marijuana uses, which are smoking, eating, and vaping, are a great representation of this dispute.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions as reversed President Obama’s 2013 policy that protects legalized marijuana programs from intervention from the federal government. What this does is hands the decision back to each state. Each state’s U.S. attorney will now decide whether to enforce the federal marijuana law. Attorney General Sessions stated that “it is the mission of the Department of Justice to enforce the laws of the United States.” According to General Sessions, the previous policy undermines the rule of law. Currently, individuals that are prescribed medical marijuana and the programs that supply it are protected from federal prosecution by the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment. The amendment expires on January 19, 2018. (Schladebeck & Blain 2018).

Since using and buying marijuana is illegal people that safely smoke this drug must deal with criminals on the black market. This increases the danger of violence against buyers and brings corruption on our city streets. People are not going to tell the police if a dealer robs them or causes physical harm. Consequently, without government regulations and control marijuana bought on the street could also cause bring harm to the person smoking the drug. Another key point is dealers can lace the drug with synthetic materials that are not safe for humans. Money that is made on the black market is probably never reported as income and dealers become rich without the burden of paying taxes. This in turn puts more of a burden on law abiding taxpayers to pay for services provided by the

.). With proof that US citizens continue using prescription narcotics at an alarming rate, the Drug Enforcement Agency (D.E.A) does not classify any of those substances as a Schedule I substance. However, the D.E.A. classifies marijuana as a schedule I substance; making it extremely difficult for it to be researched for its medicinal value. There is a need for the D.E.A. to reclassify marijuana; it should not be classified as a schedule I substance because marijuana has several medical uses.

There have been four states along with the District of Columbia that have allowed marijuana for recreational usage since 2012. Colorado is the Christopher Columbus of this social experiment and has spurred numerous opinions, both good and bad. Recreational marijuana has had many benefits for Colorado such as economic growth, improved safety through regulations, and overall social unification. Make sure your thesis makes a claim that is arguable.

Marijuana use in the United States has been increasing throughout the United States, along with the number of marijuana related arrests. In 2011, law enforcement agencies made 574,641 arrests for small quantities of the drug intended for personal use, the “marijuana arrests were about 13.6 percent more than the 505,681 arrests made for all violent crimes, including murder, rape and serious assaults” (Williams, 2016). Illegal and legal marijuana use is associated with high rates of property and violent crime rates, but in recent studies evidence was found to support the opposite. Shepard & Blackley (2016) found that legalized medical marijuana does not have a negative effect on violent and property crime. Morris et al. (2014) found that medical marijuana laws are not predictive of higher violent and property crimes, but may be related to reductions in violent and property crimes. Maier et al. (2017) found that states with decriminalized and legalized marijuana laws compared to states without did not differ in rates of property, violent, or drug abuse crimes. To better understand this social issue, one must look at it from the view of each of the sociological theories; Functionalism, Conflict Theory, and Symbolic Interactionism. These theories help sociologist explain and understand the different aspects of social interactions and issues.

Marijuana has been a very controversial area of legislation for years. Through the Obama years we saw more lenient laws go into place and more places allow marijuana in the United States. Marijuana in Colorado has been an especially complicated area. In the early 2000’s medical marijuana became more common. But in 2012 Amendment 64 passed which legalized recreational marijuana. Amendment 64 created by Democrats in Colorado’s Congress in 2011 did pass public vote with 1,383,139 votes due to the efforts of many politicians, the work of special interest groups, and a shift in public opinion of marijuana over time due to media and politicians.

Marijuana is internationally the most commonly used illegal substance. Marijuana is psychoactive drug that affects different parts of the body. It has been classified as a Schedule 1 controlled substance. Surveys say that approximately 34.9 percent of high school Seniors in the United States use marijuana and close to 6 percent of seniors report using the drug on an everyday bases. As stated by the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 19.8 million adults in America had used marijuana the month before being surveyed.

The Compassionate use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act (Act 410 ILCS 130) was signed by the Illinois governor Pat Quinn on August 1, 2013. Scientists discovered that by using Marijuana, patients could get relief from debilitating medical conditions. Marijuana is a scheduled I narcotic. Narcotics are drugs which have psychoactive chemical properties. The main question asked by people is that, can prolonged usage of marijuana lead to addiction? According to the act, this drug is given to the patients who are suffering from Neuropathic Pain, Multiple Sclerosis, Nausea, Epilepsy, Alzheimer, different types of Cancer, and HIV etc. Sadly, these patients are suffering from intolerable pain,

In the efforts to legalize weed, it is obvious that many people aren'ttaking it serious or unaware of the potenital risks that weed has. To support this, my research group performed an oberservation. We created a poster saying "Anti-Weed", and watched people's rections to it. The majority of people laughed or just starred, with a small number signing the poster in agrrement.The United States’ Government should not legislate marijuana for recreational use in Texas in order to promote a healthier lifestyle. With Marijuana being a gateway drug, it would make sense to reduce its use rather than allow more of it. The health risks related to marijuana i the long run are not worth starting an addiction to it early on. Based of research and even what

Cannabis is becoming increasingly widespread and increasingly common in modern-day society for both recreational use and for medication. The article by Craig Reinarman, ‘Criminalisation, legalisation and the mixed blessing of medicalisation in the USA’ generates many controversial issues of cannabis.